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The Holocaust
“What amazes me is that people are troubled by drawing comparisons between historical events and current events,” said party chair Kristina Karamo.
Babyn Yar is the site of one of the worst mass killings of Jews during World War II.
School districts across the U.S. are banning some of the most influential educational tools we have, teachers and librarians said.
The "View" host faced backlash and a suspension from ABC News after she said the Holocaust “isn’t about race” on her daytime talk show. She later apologized.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
WHAT'S HAPPENING
A Tennessee school board removed the graphic novel about the Holocaust from middle school curriculums.
"While Whoopi has apologized, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments," ABC's president said.
The Auschwitz Memorial Twitter account suggested she review its educational resources about the genocide. The comedian later apologized.
The graphic novel shows the horrors of the Holocaust in cartoon, depicting Jews as mice and Nazis as cats.
The scenes allegedly included digging mass graves for classmates and dying in a gas chamber.
The remarks were "in no way to convey the Holocaust was anything less than a terrible event in history," said the superintendent.
